Dummy Boards and Chimney Boards by Clare Graham
Dummy Boards and Chimney Boards

Clare Graham

Dummy Boards and Chimney Boards

Clare Graham

32 pages first pub 1988 (editions)

nonfiction art history
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Life-size painted wooden cut-out figures of soldiers, serving maids, children and animals stand in dark corners of some museums and country houses. This book presents their true origins in seventeenth century 'Trompe l'oeil' painting and discusses...

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